“Even Mice Can Roar” - En analys av Alliance of Small Island States inflytande i internationell klimatpolitik med fokus på det långsiktiga temperaturmålet.
(2019) STVK02 20182Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- This thesis aims at analyzing Alliance of Small Island States’ influence and leverage in international climate negotiations with the purpose of widening the understanding of power relations and structures in international climate politics. The theoretical framework for the paper is Pierre Bourdieu’s theory on symbolic capital and the thesis studies Alliance of Small Islands States part in the process of negotiating an ambitious long-term temperature goal in the Paris agreement with the hypothesis that Alliance of Small Island States procured and exercised symbolic power in that process. The result of the analysis shows that AOSIS thus hold some amount of symbolic capital but the power structures in the global climate regime is still in... (More)
- This thesis aims at analyzing Alliance of Small Island States’ influence and leverage in international climate negotiations with the purpose of widening the understanding of power relations and structures in international climate politics. The theoretical framework for the paper is Pierre Bourdieu’s theory on symbolic capital and the thesis studies Alliance of Small Islands States part in the process of negotiating an ambitious long-term temperature goal in the Paris agreement with the hypothesis that Alliance of Small Island States procured and exercised symbolic power in that process. The result of the analysis shows that AOSIS thus hold some amount of symbolic capital but the power structures in the global climate regime is still in favor of economic capital. (Less)
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- author
- Herrström, Alice LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- STVK02 20182
- year
- 2019
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), internationell klimatpolitik, långsiktigt temperaturmål, Pierre Bourdieu, symbolisk makt
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 8965259
- date added to LUP
- 2019-03-21 10:00:11
- date last changed
- 2019-03-21 10:00:11
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